Simon Romijn - Managing Director and Head of Australia and New Zealand and Research Director
simon.romijn@sam-group.com

Simon is responsible for business development and client service for SAM Group in Australian and New Zealand. He has 25 years financial services and investment management experience gained in a variety of roles. Prior to joining SAM he spent 5 years with Mercer Investment Consulting in Melbourne and Sydney as a principal. In this role he provided advice to a range of major institutional clients, headed fixed income research and headed and developed the dynamic asset allocation service. He was employed by ING Group in Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Boston and London for 10 years in the 1990s where he managed high yield and emerging markets debt funds. He also worked as a manager in the financial markets group of Bank of New Zealand based in Sydney in the 1980s. Simon has a Bachelor of Science degree with honours and a postgraduate Diploma of Accountancy from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He is a Senior Fellow of FINSIA.

Francis Grey — Research Manager, Australia and New Zealand
francis.grey@sam-group.com

Francis is responsible for research in Australia and New Zealand. Previously, he has worked as the principal of Economists@Large & Associates. In this role he has worked extensively on the economics of sustainability issues for 12 years. Former clients include for example, Greenpeace and the Australian Commonwealth Department of the Environment. He was a member of different government committees as well as of a committee examining the socio-economic impacts of water reforms. He has also been a member of the Environment Advisory panel for WMC Ltd. During 1989 Francis worked in the financial markets as a financial markets economist. Prior to that he had worked in the Australian Federal Treasury Department as a policy economist.